Climate Adaptation Challenges in India and Developed Countries

An interesting paper on the Academia website discusses India’s challenges in designing and implementing climate adaptation plans. We learned about the writing through the article on the Nature Research Journal’s website.

Like many least-developed countries (LDCs), India is vulnerable to climate change. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has established the Green Climate Fund, a funding mechanism to help LDCs like India establish and support climate adaptation.

The article says accessing the Green Climate fund is challenging. First, the UNFCCC does not have a standardized procedure for vulnerability assessment, preparation of adaptation plans, and estimation of adaptation costs.

This lack of a standardised process will make it difficult for India and other LDCs to come up with a compelling proposal required to access the fund, as these countries lack the technical capacity to prepare these proposals.

The article suggests the process should take a bottom-up approach, with local communities and the government having the skills to conduct vulnerability assessments and climate adaptation planning. However, this requires training and capacity building of local and community leaders.

The LDCs accessing the UNFCCC’s green climate fund for their climate adaptation program will have to spend it on training and capacity building of stakeholders.

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